Linux Mint 11 RC – bug reports

[steviejay]

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Also I cannot change cursor themes. It appears that I'm stuck with DMZ (white) for the foreseeable unless someone knows of a fix for this?
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You could try running "sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme" to change it. It appears that Compiz doesn't use the cursor theme set in Appearance anymore and defaults to the system cursor theme.

Thanks for the suggestion Karashata but I've tried that without success. Maybe it will fix when RC updates to final.

[kc1di]

Everything has mostly been working fine , but noticed last night that when I minimize a running program it does not place it in the Panel. So there is no way to re-maximize it later. have to restart the program. This may be a show stopper for me because I often minumize one instance of my Word Processor while working in another. but will loose my work in the first instance. I work around this right now by bringing them up on separate windows.
Hope this one get's fixed before final. Or if there is something I'm missing that someone would point it out.
overall it a very nice desktop.

[kc1di]

update on my last post. install Mint 11 on my other machine and the panel and minimize are working fine.
So I think it's a problem with the Laptop machine install will try re installing later today.

[steviejay]

Everything has mostly been working fine , but noticed last night that when I minimize a running program it does not place it in the Panel. So there is no way to re-maximize it later. have to restart the program. This may be a show stopper for me because I often minumize one instance of my Word Processor while working in another. but will loose my work in the first instance. I work around this right now by bringing them up on separate windows.
Hope this one get's fixed before final. Or if there is something I'm missing that someone would point it out.
overall it a very nice desktop.

Make sure that you have Window List added to the panel. Right click on the panel > Add to Panel, scroll down to the third from bottom.

[kc1di]

Everything has mostly been working fine , but noticed last night that when I minimize a running program it does not place it in the Panel. So there is no way to re-maximize it later. have to restart the program. This may be a show stopper for me because I often minumize one instance of my Word Processor while working in another. but will loose my work in the first instance. I work around this right now by bringing them up on separate windows.
Hope this one get's fixed before final. Or if there is something I'm missing that someone would point it out.
overall it a very nice desktop.

(SOLVED)
Set them in to be always on top now they show.

[Zero Prime]

The only problems I've had are with the panel. Sometimes after logging out the logging back in, various panel apps fail to load. Normally it's the clock and the windows selector. One time the whole panel didn't load.

One big praise though, this install was the first time my broadcom wireless card was detected without having to install drivers!!!! Sweet

[Fandangio]

No serious problems found except PrtScr has stopped working.

I've checked keyboard shortcuts and reassigned the key and it recognises PRINT clearly, though the clipboard remains empty.

[MrD]

No serious problems found except PrtScr has stopped working.

I've checked keyboard shortcuts and reassigned the key and it recognises PRINT clearly, though the clipboard remains empty.

An update in Mint 10 killed off PrtScr for me, installing Mint 11RC over my existing build keeping the settings in the /home folder has it working again. I wonder how someone would figure out what is altering that value?

[Fandangio]

No serious problems found except PrtScr has stopped working.

I've checked keyboard shortcuts and reassigned the key and it recognises PRINT clearly, though the clipboard remains empty.

An update in Mint 10 killed off PrtScr for me, installing Mint 11RC over my existing build keeping the settings in the /home folder has it working again. I wonder how someone would figure out what is altering that value?

Weird, it worked fine in Mint 10 for me (just a few days ago in fact)!

[thx1138]

The only problems I've had are with the panel. Sometimes after logging out the logging back in, various panel apps fail to load. Normally it's the clock and the windows selector.

This happens on my machine too.

[karashata]

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Also I cannot change cursor themes. It appears that I'm stuck with DMZ (white) for the foreseeable unless someone knows of a fix for this?
...

You could try running "sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme" to change it. It appears that Compiz doesn't use the cursor theme set in Appearance anymore and defaults to the system cursor theme.

Thanks for the suggestion Karashata but I've tried that without success. Maybe it will fix when RC updates to final.

I believe in order for the change to actually take effect you need to log out and log back in so Compiz starts using the new system default, that tends to fix a lot of things that don't change right away otherwise... If it still doesn't work then I'm stumped, since that was what worked for me.

[karashata]

Found another bug, added it to my list here. Seems GRUB (and BURG) use an incorrect UUID for my LMDE partition as the OS root when running update-grub (or update-burg) from Katya. The GRUB (and BURG) menu entry in grub.cfg (or burg.cfg) for LMDE reads as follows:

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menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (on /dev/sda3)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
        insmod part_msdos
        insmod ext2
        set root='(/dev/sda,msdos3)'
        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 1370577c-4f4a-425c-8030-fa6a6d262157
        linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 root=UUID=1f084bbd-a556-4e8b-9ab4-c9049cfda7e3 ro quiet
        initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
}

Trying to boot into LMDE with this results in dropping to an initramfs recovery console because it cannot find the root device by UUID. Manually changing the root UUID to the one in the search line (the correct UUID for the partition) in grub.cfg (or burg.cfg) allows me to successfully boot into LMDE, however this is only a temporary workaround since any changes made directly to those files are removed any time the update scripts are called.

[steviejay]

karashata wrote:

I believe in order for the change to actually take effect you need to log out and log back in so Compiz starts using the new system default, that tends to fix a lot of things that don't change right away otherwise... If it still doesn't work then I'm stumped, since that was what worked for me.

When you say log out/in would that (or does that) have a different effect to re-booting? I have tried changing the theme then re-booting to see if the change takes effect without success.

As it goes, I have found a temporary fix but it's no more than a workaround. I simply uninstalled all the pointer themes except for the one that I want to use which is oxy-white. With that as the only pointer theme on the system it had to make it the default. Not ideal I know. I think I might try re-installing the DMZ theme and doing the log out/in thing as you suggested and see what occurs.

UPDATE:

Re-installed DMZ theme and selected the white option. Cursor didn't change straight away but did after log out/in. Then tried reversing the procedure. Re-selected oxy-white, logged out then back in but the damn thing was still using the DMZ theme!

[karashata]

Just a quick update, turns out the GRUB (and BURG) problem I was having wasn't Katya's fault, it was LMDE's. After doing an update on LMDE (during which a new kernel was installed and the update-grub script there called), LMDE's entry was properly configured in BURG after updating it from Katya.

[kwisher]

Hello All,

Fresh clean install of Mint-11. Really like the default desktop background. One problem I am having is that my Droid phone is only mounted successfully after a reboot. Once I unmount the USB device and then come back later and plug the phone in again it will not mount or charge. Logging out and then back in again does not help, only a reboot will allow the phone to be mounted correctly. USB sticks work correctly. This is a big inconvenience and if anyone knows of a fix it sure would be appreciated.

TIA

[madwoollything]

Ran into two installation issues with RC - 64bit DVD on Toshiba Satellite C660, AMD dual core, ATI graphics card

1. Ubiquity - had to use 'sudo ubiquity --no-migration-assistant' to get around 'unmount issue' during installation - well documented problem from what I can see

2. Installation completely crashed towards the end what looks like kernel panic and leaves the machine locked up with caps lock key flashing

The downloaded RC DVD md5 checks out fine.
Very repeatable issues as this happened on two installation attempts using 2 different memory sticks to run the live DVD.

The Live DVD Mint 11 RC seems to run just fine on the Toshiba. Its just the two issues with installation.
Now have installed Ubuntu 11.04, which has worked OK but also had to use --no-migration-assistant flag to get installation to complete.

Hope this helps
(RC looks really nice!)

[karashata]

I found out about another bug in the RC here. Turns out clicking the window menu button/icon on the title bar will disable the window decoration.

A simple way to restore it if that happens is to type 'gtk-window-decorator --replace' into the GNOME run dialog and it will come back up.

[Capzilla]

- When running the Bitcoin client from bitcoin.org, no window appears. The program is actually running (creates lock file, process in ps list), but cannot be made visible. Could be an issue with the software though, but in Linux Mint 10 it worked flawlessly.

- When installing packages or updates, often there is no taskbar entry whatsoever for these dialogs. You'll find them if you close other windows or use a switcher, but more often than once I ran into a "already running" error because of a stale window that had done all it had to except for being closed. These windows should either remain on the foreground, have a taskbar entry or auto-close option after success.

Other than that, Katya looks great. (Although getting used to the new scrollbar widget takes some time haha.)

[Capzilla]

Another thing: when using Safely remove drive, thereafter inserted SD cards are no longer being recognised. When using Eject or just removing it without precaution, newly inserted SD cards work fine (standard Dell Inspiron R17 multicard reader).

(I'll have to reconfirm, might have encountered this in Julia actually)

[MrD]

Just had a weird one. My laptop tried to shut down, black screen with writing, screen then went black for about 5 seconds and then the login window came up. Once logged back in none of my windows were remembered or open. Curious.